Skilling, James William

Production date
1993
 Description
Oral history. Born 1930. Dunnington, England. Jim spent part of his childhood in a Dr Barnados Home 1938-41. Mentions the Second World War. Talks of childhood and dairy farming in Sussex. Came to New Zealand in 1950 on the SS Tomora. Talks of voyage and arrival in Auckland. Worked as a labourer on a dairy farm, Wangarei. Went to Massey College. Worked on various farms in Taranaki. 1970 to New Plymouth as a stamp dealer.
Recorded: 13 October 1993 Interviewer: Joy Peckham
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Object detail

Production date
1993
Subject person
Classification
oral history/(for Archives)
Collection
Oral histories-Emigration
Item list

  Part 1

Research tape

Recorded: 13 October 1993 Interviewer: Joy Peckham

Abstraction: Joy Peckham

Restrictions: none

  Part 2

Master tape

  Part 3

Abstract

  Digital file

WAV format

Accession number
ARC2007-07
Collection type
Archives

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